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| Ecuador captures Sendero Luminoso bad guy |
| 2012-03-21 |
| Filed under the rubric: Shining Path still exists? Link is in Spanish A member of the Peruvian Sendero Luminoso or Shining Path Maoist guerilla group was captured in Ecuador Tuesday, according to Spanish language reports. Luis Gelacio was captured in the village of Naranjal in Guayas province in the southeast of Ecuador by an Ecuadoran intelligence unit of the anticrime police squad. Gelacio is wanted by Ecuador for a 1998 attack on a police station in the village of San Jacinto in Tumbes province. He is also suspected in the murder of a Peruvian police officer, Cesar Castro. Gelacio had been living in Naranjal under an alias. |
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